Obra Aberta

Leonor Areal bought a 16mm reel of film at the Flea Market, and found a lost movie made by Edgar Sardinha in the 1980s. Having no soundtrack, she decided to create a new one, in an attempt to rescue it from oblivion. Through this inquiry process, a film-essay emerged to let us reflect upon the erosion of memory.

In her visual essay, Leonor Areal invites the viewer to look in detail at a centenary film and at the dozens of people who appear after a concert, most of them men, in full suits and hats, many with mustaches. Among them, the poet Fernando Pessoa is sought.